Vernon M. Stern

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Vernon Mark Stern (March 28, 1923 – March 16, 2006) was an American professor of entomology at the University of California, Riverside considered as one of the founding figures of integrated pest management.

Stern along with Ray F. Smith, Robert van den Bosch and Kenneth Hagen established the concept of integrated control in 1959.[1][2] Another of his ideas was the use of strip-cropping between the main crop to maintain populations of beneficial insects. He demonstrated this with the use of alfalfa strips in cotton to manage lygaeid bugs. He also developed the concept of economic injury level and other economic thresholds about which he wrote an influential review paper in 1973.[3] He also made use of innovative study techniques such as the use of fluorescent dust to mark and study the dispersal of weevils in grape fields.[4][5] He worked at the University of California from 1956 until he retired in 1991.

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  1. ^ Warnert, Jeannette (2009). "The 50th anniversary of a great idea: Landmark article on "integrated control" considered "most important" pest control paper of 20th century". California Agriculture. 63 (4): 160–161. doi:10.3733/ca.v063n04p160.
  2. ^ Stern V; Smith R; van den Bosch R; Hagen K. (1959). "The integration of chemical and biological control of the spotted alfalfa aphid: The integrated control concept". Hilgardia. 29 (2): 81–101. doi:10.3733/hilg.v29n02p081.
  3. ^ Stern, Vernon M. (1973). "Economic Thresholds". Annual Review of Entomology. 18: 259–280. doi:10.1146/annurev.en.18.010173.001355.
  4. ^ Stern, Vernon M.; Mueller, Arthur (1968). "Techniques of Marking Insects with Micronized Fluorescent Dust with Especial Emphasis on Marking Millions of Lygus hesperus for Dispersal Studies1". Journal of Economic Entomology. 61 (5): 1232–1237. doi:10.1093/jee/61.5.1232.
  5. ^ Trumble, J. T. (2006). "Obituary: Vernon M. Stern". American Entomologist. 52 (3): 204–205. doi:10.1093/ae/52.3.204.
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